āYes,ā Sakura confirmed bluntly, if a little forcefully. The kunoichi didnāt doubt for a second that it would be difficult, but if only he could survive the kind of torture Itachi had instigated on the Hatake in what felt like ages ago, where would that put her? Yes, she loved Sasuke, but she wasnāt the blind and romantic little idiot sheād been up to the Forest of Death when her fancies and fantasies were beginning to totally fracture since the Land of Waves. Straightening, she felt as though she had to provoke him a little, leaning forth as though poised to battle him.Ā āSensei, Iām not Rin Nohara! If that is whatās holding you back, you have to stop or else I might really end up dead if I canāt prepare for this! Then, it might really be your fault!ā Bringing up her senseiās former teammate was cruel, and the backlash of guilt was immediate, and it showed on her countenance. But, somehow, she knew she was right.Ā
Huffing softly, she amended,Ā āI think I might have a way out. Genjutsu cast by a Mangekyo Sharingan is bound to be strong anyways, right? Even if itās not the Tsukiyomi, if I can withstand that and break from it, Iāll at least be a lot better off.ā Sure, she wasnāt exactly covering the bases of the emotional backlash her sensei might face, but part of her hoped she wouldnāt have to; he was former Anbu, after all, and she wondered if he couldnāt tap into that disconnected emotional core again, at least for this.Ā
Either way, Inner Sakura be what made or broke this unorthodox training exercise of theirs.Ā
Doubtless Sakura wasnāt the same girl she was in the Forest of Death, where the sight of a kunai-and-shuriken-stabbed Sasuke would make her faint. Even the sight of all her loved ones dead before her may not make her faint, though perhaps if she were forced to watch it over and over for weeks on end, without a momentās rest or sleep... It was the same for most methods of torture. Repetition made it more intolerable. Many people could handle small bursts of torment, but hours upon hours, days, weeks of it? It took a particular type of person to be able to handle such things.
Sakura might be one of those people. But he wasnāt sure torturing her would turn her into one of those people if she wasnāt already.
Then she made the dig at his former (dead, slaughtered by him) teammate, and he just -- blinked at her. As was typical for Kakashi, emotion didnāt show on his face, though it did actually sting. Wow, that was a low blow, Sakura, he thought. Maybe you should be the one torturing me.Ā
He knew she didnāt like wounding him like that, and that she was doing it to prove some sort of point she thought needed proving, but he really didnāt see that point. She wasnāt Rin Nohara. Kakashi just really didnāt see how torturing Sakura would do more good than harm.
Her next suggestion was more palatable, which was what Kakashi had wanted to do in the first place.Ā āWell, yes, that had been my initial idea,ā he said, not irked per say, but a little huffy maybe.Ā āAnd I think working on some meditation would help, too. To strengthen your mind even more.ā A shrug.Ā āI can still activate Tsukiyomi and fight you while you try to break free. We just canāt do it very often.ā A shrug.Ā āIt requires a substantial amount of chakra.ā